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Yup, its true. The day may come. The widebody 'could' be up for sale.
Reason being:
Saturday, had the car up at our shop tuning the Megasquirt. Got a decent cruise tune down, cruised around town for about 3 hours in it, running pretty decent, not 100% but decent for our first time screwing around with megasquirt. Anyway, we decided to give it a pull to see how our numbers would look in boost.
We give it one pull in 2nd gear, only at 10psi, and it pulled hard as holy fuck. Surprisingly, AFR was 11.8. Little rich, but not bad at all given the circumstances.
So, what hapened when we did this pull? Well, my car has leaked oil for the passed 2 years when we rebuilt the motor, because honestly, I think we used the wrong oring between the bedplate and block. Oil leaks from right above the oil filter, and its not the crank sensor, so given, it should be that oring.
Anyway, we had a huge puddle of oil on top of the motor and on the back of the block leaking by the tranny. The back of block leaks appears to be coming directly out of the oem oil pressure sender. Ah not too worried about that, that thing has a tendency to leak on everyone, comes right out of the pigtail side of the sensor, so I planned on just completely removing that sensor anyways, since I have a seperate oil pressure gauge and that stupid sensor always seems to leak on me no matter what I try.
So how about all that oil that BLEW out of the breater that I had on the side of the valve cover? It blew right through that little filter too. Either A, I just have a bad PCV valve and I should upgrade that thing anyway to a turbo check valve and run a catch can, or B, I possibly blew a ring or cracked a ring land.
Now, I will run a compression test tomorrow when I get back to work, but I am saying it right now, if its the rings and I have low compression on one of the cylinders, the car will be on ebay, No if ands or butts. I dont have the patience anymore for that shit. I have replaced the total seal rings once with JE's and I am NOT doing it again.
If indeed thats the problem, for sure, its being sold and I am either going to buy another cheap 2GNT and just start over from scratch or I am going to get a GSX, but I highly doubt that since I like to build the 420a's and thats the only motor I know about besides all of our GM motors. I could build a nice SS Cobalt, but i dont have the extra $$$ to dump into one of those. I would like to find a cheap 2g with like 100k miles and just completely rework the mother fucker ya know.
So, time will tell and time is ticking until tomorrow! -MIKE-
Stroked 2.2L
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